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Macroscopic quantum many-body tunneling of attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in anharmonic trap

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We study the stability of attractive atomic Bose-Einstein condensate and the macroscopic quantum many-body tunneling (MQT) in the anharmonic trap. We utilize correlated two-body basis function which keeps all possible two-body correlations. The anharmonic parameter (λ) is slowly tuned from harmonic to anharmonic. For each choice of λ the many-body equation is solved adiabatically. The use of the van der Waals interaction gives realistic picture which substantially differs from the mean-field results. For weak anharmonicity, we observe that the attractive condensate gains stability with larger number of bosons compared to that in the pure harmonic trap. The transition from resonances to bound states with weak anharmonicity also differs significantly from the earlier study of [N. Moiseyev, L.D. Carr, B.A. Malomed, Y.B. Band, J. Phys. B 37, L193 (2004)]. We also study the tunneling of the metastable condensate very close to the critical number N cr of collapse and observe that near collapse the MQT is the dominant decay mechanism compared to the two-body and three-body loss rate. We also observe the power law behavior in MQT near the critical point. The results for pure harmonic trap are in agreement with mean-field results. However, we fail to retrieve the power law behavior in anharmonic trap although MQT is still the dominant decay mechanism.

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  1. Department of Physics, Lady Brabourne College, P-1/2 Suhrawardy Avenue, 700017, Kolkata, India

    Sudip Kumar Haldar

  2. Santoshpur Sri Gouranga Vidyapith (H.S), P.O.-Kulitapara, 711312, Howrah, West Bengal, India

    Pankaj Kumar Debnath

  3. Department of Physics, Kalyani University, Kalyani, 741235, Nadia, West Bengal, India

    Barnali Chakrabarti

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Haldar, S.K., Debnath, P.K. & Chakrabarti, B. Macroscopic quantum many-body tunneling of attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in anharmonic trap. Eur. Phys. J. D 67, 188 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2013-40008-7

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